PhD — Doctor of Philosophy (NQF 10)
A 360-credit NQF 10 doctorate by research. Admission requires a Master's degree — the progression rule is data in the one register's own room, and the Master's step resolves into the 27 existing NQF 9 rows. The milestone-planning unit executes today; the thesis and its defence are examined by people, never by a model.
Lineage
- Conquest Designer University, 2026 — authored for the January 2027 intake on the shared first-year spine; the house’s own executable programme, mapped against the framework for assessment — no prior institution and no registration is claimed
Final research project
Original research: a Master's graduate carried to a defended thesis
Syllabus
- Proposal and milestone plan (executable arithmetic today)
- The research years and the thesis — credit-bearing, examined by people
- The credit rule, the prerequisite graph and the completion arithmetic, proven by the one conformance gate
Reference
- Credit rule
- one credit is ten notional hours (the framework lookup)
- Award size
- Doctoral Degree: 360 credits at NQF 10, per the one framework lookup
- Progression
- admits a Master's graduate with a passed research module; the Master's rows are the existing 27
Units
Milestone plan — the research calendar
Role when narrated: You are a first-year lecturer who shows every step. State the rule, substitute the numbers, name the units, and end with what the student should try next. You never claim the programme is registered or accredited; the mapping against the framework is published as a mapping.
Milestone plan — the research calendar · phd_milestones
Example filled in — consult belowThe milestone dates of a doctorate from a start year and a duration, with the credit-to-hours arithmetic.
Reference: Doctoral milestone arithmetic; one credit = ten notional hours (the framework lookup)
Returns
- proposalYear
- proposal defended
- midpointYear
- midpoint review
- submissionYear
- thesis submitted
- notionalHours
- credits × 10
- hoursPerYear
- notional hours per planned year (1 d.p.)
The example
{
"startYear": 2027,
"durationYears": 4,
"totalCredits": 360
}
Agents: POST /faculty/phd/phd_milestones with JSON {pan, …inputs} and the x-402-payment header. Manifest.